On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote: > speaking from my own experience: soundmodem looks particularly > attractive, especially to a novice who just dropped a bunch of $$ on a > radio, as it appears one can get a TNC for "free". As it turns out, > soundmodem is probably _the_ most complicated and difficult way to get > into packet/APRS barring building a TNC from discrete transistors.
I wouldn't have put it quite that strong, but yes, it can be daunting, particularly if you're setting up AX.25 kernel networking at the same time. If you bypass that and just go with the Serial KISS TNC setup for soundmodem instead, it's easier, but still not a total breeze. I suspect if a few of us who have set it up before got together and wrote a step-by-step on the Wiki, we'd be able to keep it up to date from then on. I've got many years under my belt with AX.25 on Linux (KISS TNC's attached to real serial ports). I've only done soundmodem setups a few times and never set up transmit with it. For that matter I always thought the AX.25 HOWTO would do better as a Wiki. It's perpetually out of date. > If you've got the patience and electronics knowledge, go for it. I > personally would drop Scott $32 for an OT1+ kit that can do KISS mode. Or a TNC-X. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
